Heavy Equipment Operations

Contact(s): Joshua Aldridge

The Heavy Equipment Operator curriculum prepares students to efficiently operate heavy equipment such as dozers, loaders, scrapers, and graders and to perform basic preventive maintenance on most types of heavy equipment.

Coursework includes construction safety, property equipment operation, grades, drawings, environmental concerns, heavy equipment design characteristics and features, equipment maintenance, and common equipment systems.

Graduates of this program may find employment with state and local government agencies and private contractors engaged in highway or other construction activities.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program:

• The student will be able to determine the safety level of heavy equipment machinery.
• Given dimension and elevation specifications, the student will be able to lay out level pad sites.
• Given site layout and elevation grade, the student will be able to grade a dirt pad.

Note:

To enroll in HEO 111, students must be:

1.  High school graduates accepted into the heavy equipment program,

OR

2.  CCP students who have completed the Heavy Equipment Operator – CCP pathway AND who will turn 18 before the beginning of the 25% point of the HEO 111 course (normally the 4^th week for a 16 week course.

• Heavy Equipment Operations Diploma
• Basic Operational Techniques Certificate

• Heavy Equipment Introduction to Operations in Construction

• Intermediate Operational Techniques Certificate

• Heavy Equipment Operator - CCP

Heavy Equipment Operations Diploma – D35340

Gainful Employment Disclosure

Basic Operational Techniques Certificate – C35340B

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Heavy Equipment Introduction to Operations in Construction - C35340C

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Intermediate Operational Techniques Certificate – C35340I

Gainful Employment Disclosure

Heavy Equipment Operator - CCP

Tuition-waived program for Career & College Promise (high school students)

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